The 2017 Dollar General Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 23, 2017, at Ladd–Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Alabama, United States. The 19th edition of the Dollar General Bowl featured the Sun Belt Conference co-champion Appalachian State Mountaineers against the Mid-American Conference champion Toledo Rockets. Kickoff was scheduled for 6:00 p.m. CST and the game aired on ESPN. It was one of the 2017–18 bowl games concluding the 2017 FBS football season. The game was sponsored by the Dollar General chain of variety stores.
Teams The game featured the Appalachian State Mountaineers against the Toledo Rockets. It was the second all-time meeting between the schools; the first was the 2016 Camellia Bowl which saw the Mountaineers defeat the Rockets by a score of 31–28.
Appalachian State Mountaineers
This was the Mountaineers' first Dollar General Bowl.
Toledo Rockets
This was the Rockets' third Dollar General Bowl; their record in prior games was 2–0, having previously defeated the UTEP Miners 45–13 in the 2005 game (when it was known as the GMAC Bowl) and having subsequently defeated the Arkansas State Red Wolves 63–44 in the January 2015 game (when it was known as the GoDaddy Bowl).
Game summary
Scoring summary
Statistics
Statistics APP TOL First downs 23 8 Total offense, plays-yards 70–458 50–146Rushes-yards (net) 53–327 21–22 Passing yards (net) 131 124Passes, Comp-Att-Int 8–17–0 16–29–3 Time of Possession 35:50 24:10
Team Category Player Statistics Appalachian State Passing Taylor Lamb 8/16, 131 yds Rushing Jalin Moore 22 car, 125 yds, 3 TD Receiving Ike Lewis 4 rec, 67 yds Toledo Passing Logan Woodside 16/29, 124 yds, 3 INT Rushing Terry Swanson 11 car, 44 yds Receiving Jordan Fisher 2 rec, 29 yds
References
External links ESPN summary